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People are fucked, Part CXII

Oh, shit

In 2003, Nawaf Obaid, a Saudi national security consultant, surveyed 15,000 Saudis. Nearly 50 percent supported Osama bin Laden. Last July the Pew Research Center found that 51 percent of its sample of Pakistanis place confidence in Osama, and 60 percent of Jordanians support him. Is 60 percent a tiny minority?

The Pew Center also found that in Lebanon, support for suicide bombing in defense of Islam is 39 percent of its sample, and in Jordan it's 57 percent. Is 57 percent a tiny minority?

In October 2003, the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research in Ramallah found that 75 percent of Palestinians in its sample supported the bombing of the Maxim restaurant in Haifa that killed 23 people, mostly Jews. Is 75 percent a tiny minority?

The London Telegraph reported in February that its ICM poll showed 40 percent of British Muslims in its sample favor applying sharia law in predominantly Muslim areas of the country. Is 40 percent a tiny minority?

Jayzus, I am sick of these loonies. Short of walling off the entire Middle East, what's to be done?

I'm thinking a ship of fools situation, perhaps. Perhaps we can produce a "B Ark" and get rid of everyone like this by putting them in a big spaceship and send it off to nowhere in particular?

Or even better, straight into the sun.

Word.

(via House of Wheels.)

Posted by Quentin George at March 14, 2006 06:32 PM